kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/net/caif/caif_usb.c, branch master

caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER

2026-04-23T17:23:44+00:00

Remove CAIF (Communication CPU to Application CPU Interface), the ST-Ericsson modem protocol. The subsystem has been orphaned since 2013. The last meaningful changes from the maintainers were in March 2013: a8c7687bf216 ("caif_virtio: Check that vringh_config is not null") b2273be8d2df ("caif_virtio: Use vringh_notify_enable correctly") 0d2e1a2926b1 ("caif_virtio: Introduce caif over virtio") Not-so-coincidentally, according to "the Internet" ST-Ericsson officially shut down its modem joint venture in Aug 2013. If anyone is using this code please yell! In the 13 years since, the code has accumulated 200 non-merge commits, of which 71 were cross-tree API changes, 21 carried Fixes: tags, and the remaining ~110 were cleanups, doc conversions, treewide refactors, and one partial removal (caif_hsi, ca75bcf0a83b). We are still getting fixes to this code, in the last 10 days there were 3 reports on security@ about CAIF that I have been CCed on. UAPI constants (AF_CAIF, ARPHRD_CAIF, N_CAIF, VIRTIO_ID_CAIF) and the SELinux classmap entry are intentionally kept for ABI stability. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416182829.1440262-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

net: fill in MODULE_DESCRIPTION()s for CAIF

2024-01-05T16:06:35+00:00

W=1 builds now warn if module is built without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION(). Add descriptions to all the CAIF sub-modules. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240104144855.1320993-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify()

2023-03-03T06:22:07+00:00

syzbot reported use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify() [1]. This causes a stack trace like below: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807ac4e6f0 by task kworker/u4:6/1214 CPU: 0 PID: 1214 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-syzkaller-00146-g92f20ff72066 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue: netns cleanup_net Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x467 mm/kasan/report.c:313 print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline] kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491 cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138 notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xb5/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1945 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997 [inline] netdev_wait_allrefs_any net/core/dev.c:10227 [inline] netdev_run_todo+0xbc0/0x10f0 net/core/dev.c:10341 default_device_exit_batch+0x44e/0x590 net/core/dev.c:11334 ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:167 cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00 net/core/net_namespace.c:594 process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302 When unregistering a net device, unregister_netdevice_many_notify() sets the device's reg_state to NETREG_UNREGISTERING, calls notifiers with NETDEV_UNREGISTER, and adds the device to the todo list. Later on, devices in the todo list are processed by netdev_run_todo(). netdev_run_todo() waits devices' reference count become 1 while rebdoadcasting NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification. When cfusbl_device_notify() is called with NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times, the parent device might be freed. This could cause UAF. Processing NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times also causes inbalance of reference count for the module. This patch fixes the issue by accepting only first NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification. Fixes: 7ad65bf68d70 ("caif: Add support for CAIF over CDC NCM USB interface") CC: sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com Reported-by: syzbot+b563d33852b893653a9e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c3bfd8e2450adab3bffe4d80821fbbced600407f [1] Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230301163913.391304-1-syoshida@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

caif: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy

2022-08-23T00:57:35+00:00

Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this subsystem. Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used. Generated by a coccinelle script. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220818210214.8371-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: caif: get ready for const netdev->dev_addr

2021-10-24T12:59:45+00:00

Get it ready for constant netdev->dev_addr. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: caif: fix memory leak in cfusbl_device_notify

2021-06-03T22:05:07+00:00

In case of caif_enroll_dev() fail, allocated link_support won't be assigned to the corresponding structure. So simply free allocated pointer in case of error. Fixes: 7ad65bf68d70 ("caif: Add support for CAIF over CDC NCM USB interface") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

caif_usb: fix spelling mistake "to" -> "too"

2020-01-24T07:12:06+00:00

There is a spelling mistake in a pr_warn message. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 194

2019-05-30T18:29:22+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): license terms gnu general public license gpl version 2 extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 161 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528170027.447718015@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

caif_usb: use strlcpy() instead of strncpy()

2018-01-10T20:06:14+00:00

gcc-8 reports net/caif/caif_usb.c: In function 'cfusbl_device_notify': ./include/linux/string.h:245:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' output may be truncated copying 15 bytes from a string of length 15 [-Wstringop-truncation] The compiler require that the input param 'len' of strncpy() should be greater than the length of the src string, so that '\0' is copied as well. We can just use strlcpy() to avoid this warning. Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller